Loin
חָלָץStrong’s H2504chalats (cha-lats)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chalats is the Hebrew word usually translated “from loins your”, “loins his” and “loins your”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;”
Meaning
- Loinsas seat of virility · as girded · as seat of pain (woman's travail)
How it's translated
- from loins your 3
- loins his 3
- loins your 2
- loins its 1
- loins 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Isaiah 3
- Genesis 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Jeremiah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 8:19Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
- 2 Chronicles 6:9Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
- Job 31:20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
- Job 38:3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
- Job 40:7Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
- Isaiah 5:27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
Hebrew dictionary
חָלָץ chalats · loin
1) loins 1a) as seat of virility 1b) as girded 1c) as seat of pain (woman's travail)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “loin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LOIN, noun
[Latin clumis.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.